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Sweden is under more pressure than we are, because they lost to Croatia at home. They must win Saturday's match to ensure they don't lose too many points on their home field.

Lothar Matthaeus

We are expecting a lot and so is the team. First tests in December in Sweden and France showed us that these expectations are well reasoned. All new Focus is not only fast but incredibly reliable after such a short development.

Marcus Gronholm

Germany was the best team we played in this tournament. We played Germany, we played the Americans, we played Sweden. Overall, I feel Germany is more dominant. ... I'm saying Germany is the best team that I have ever played against.

Charmaine Hooper

We met people from all over the world: Bangladesh, India, Sweden and Russia. We were treated so well.

Jordan Haines

We were supposed to win. We're obviously a lot better than Sweden. It was a good game, fun to watch.

Tony Jones

I like to battle. I like the close play, the play around the net. I'm pretty fast sideways. Back in Sweden, of course, you have a lot of shots, but not in the same way. It's more intense here. And I like it.

Henrik Lundqvist

It's happening in England, it's happening in Sweden.

Homa Arjomand

The U.S. is more of a continent than a country. There's more musical tradition here...In Sweden, people only come out to shows on the weekends. In the states, people will drive for days to see a band they've never heard play on a Tuesday!

Fredrik Nilsson

I made a mistake in Sweden; I made a mistake in Mexico. I must avoid that. I will continue flat out because that's how the car needs to be driven. But I need to stop making errors.

Mikko Hirvonen

My guess is that the kind of demonstrations we're going to be facing in Argentina are going to be much more choreographed and aren't going to have the same level as what we faced in Quebec City or in Sweden or in Milan.

Tom Shannon

I don't think Germany will be in the playoff round. I think Canada, Sweden, U.S. and Norway will. And, Scotland may be able to make it.

Anette Norberg

Use of pirated programs is still quite high in Sweden, and we want to help those who are sitting on information but who do not have anyone to turn to.

John Hugosson

In Sweden, everybody can hit anybody. There are no stars. But you have to show a little respect over here. I hope Eric doesn't feel bad about the hit.

Staffan Kronwall

The ability of other high-income countries, such as Sweden, to achieve much lower levels of pollution shows it can be done, ... There's no excuse -- all it requires is a strong commitment from government.

Thomas Gunton

He and his girlfriend are expecting their first child and he is still in Sweden because the child is expected any day.

Lars Lagerback

It's also called taiga. We've had people from Sweden here who recognized the plants, and naturalists from Russia ? their language was limited, but they could throw around the Latin names, so we had a common language.

Karen Newbern

These countries will have a hard time putting into practice their refusal to consume European goods. Even more because it will be hard to discern in large supermarket chains like (the French supermarket company) Carrefour what product comes from Denmark, or Sweden or Italy.

Luis Martinez

We never know what to expect with Sweden. If they have the confidence, they can have a good game against us and it's up to us to make sure they don't have that confidence.

Danielle Goyette

Of course we expected to face the U.S., but our medal will still be gold if we win. I'm disappointed for them, but I'm happy for Sweden and happy for our game. It's a great thing for women's hockey.

Cherie Piper

We learned from our mistakes in the game against Sweden, where we played poorly. We knew Russia had good, quality offensive players, and the only way for us to have success was to play good defense and not give them space. It's a great success for us to win the bronze.

Alois Hadamczik

Obviously, if you were born in Finland, you want to play Sweden. That's the ultimate. The situation can't get any better, can't get any more exciting.

Ville Nieminen

From Darkness into Light: Printmaking in Sweden 1890-1960.

National Gallery

We have to stop thinking about Sweden-Denmark. I'm sure they will play normally and honestly.

Giovanni Trapattoni

We beat Sweden, and we started playing really well. We knew we had to play a lot of good games. Everybody got a lot of confidence from that game, and that confidence has just continued building from that moment on.

Shawn Rojeski

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Niklas Zennstrom

God, yes. God, yes, because it's fascinating and a lot of the time you are saying I can't believe this is going out on prime time television in Sweden or Tokyo.

Chris Tarrant

There was a little bit of surprise. But Sweden has played very well and they're a great hockey club and things happen in tournaments like this.

Jennifer Botterill

That's how a lot of good work has come out of Sweden in the last 20 years.

Peter Stormare

It's impossible to describe it all, but basically the whole first couple days were so overwhelming and fun and then once we started playing things only became better -- until the Sweden game obviously. I'm just so happy I was able to be a part of it all.

Sarah Parsons

We always play to win games. If you play for Sweden, you want to win games. It doesn't matter what you're playing for.

Daniel Sedin

We'll try our best, but it will be hard. They are definitely stronger than Sweden at the moment.

Aleksandrs Starkovs

When we were a poor communist country, Sweden viewed us as a charity case, a poor cousin. Now that we are a competitor, the gloves have come off.

Ojars Kalnins

He is a real football star, not just for Sweden but for the whole game. Having Larsson on the pitch increased the value of the game and while I am not pleased he scored I am pleased he played.

Plamen Markov

My tactic was never defensive. But against Sweden we shouldn't hide and have to grasp every opportunity to attack.

Lothar Matthaeus

One year, we even had visitors from Sweden.

Shelly Brandstrom

It could become very expensive for Sweden to take responsibility in this way for other countries which haven't done their homework.

Goran Persson

We are not the greatest team in women's hockey, (but) Canada is the greatest team. I'm very happy for (Sweden) to do what they did. We want to take that bronze medal now, and we want to do everything we can to win that game.

Hannu Saintula

The most religious nation in the world is India. The least religious nation in the world is Sweden. We're a nation of Indians, ruled by Swedes.

Jerry Sutton

This may sound melodramatic but I have never, ever worked so hard. The film will be released in a different country every week for the next six weeks. I've just come back from Germany, France and Sweden to be in LA for the nominations and to speak to the American press.

Gavin Hood

We grew into the game and got as strong as the U.S.. We have to thank the U.S. and Canada for the possibility of playing against them. Sweden is now part of the league of the top women's teams.

Peter Elander

When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was.

Teemu Selanne

The carnation is a good symbol for a broad and open Left Party, which brings together the multitude of international branches which we are the expression of here in Sweden.

Lars Ohly

I don't wish a loss on anyone. Whether we played the U.S. in the final or Sweden, it didn't really matter to us. I know how it feels to lose. We lost last year and it's not very fun, you work so hard. I definitely feel for them, there's no question.

Cassie Campbell

Obviously we'll check that at the same time as we contact the American embassy in Sweden.

Thomas Fuxborg

We recently had a big order from Sweden.

Dave Craig

We'll see how she handles the pain. It's day-to-day, but we hope she can race all three events here in Norway. If there's more pain, she could skip next weekend's races in Finland and prepare for the World Cup finals in Sweden.

Anders Paerson

Finland is a small country and Sweden is a little bigger. They are right next to us, and it's a great rivalry. I think it comes naturally. I imagine people in Finland and Sweden are going crazy for the game.

Antti Laaksonen

I don't see the reason why we couldn't have more good players. But of course in Sweden they have a huge tennis culture that we don't have in Finland.

Jarkko Nieminen

We played an old cathedral (In Sweden), and the backstage was all amazing stained glass. I lit that up!

Omar Rodriguez lopez

We knew this day was coming at some point. The game is getting closer. Finland and Sweden have battled us all year. It's just unfortunate that we had to be the ones that went out.

Kristin King

Playing for the bronze was hard because losing the semi-final was very breaking. We are disappointed for what happened with Sweden but I'm happy with the medal.

Tomas Vokoun

In the early 1990s, if you told somebody you were a curler, they probably wouldn't know what you were talking about -- unless they were from Canada, Sweden or Norway.

Jamie Korab

There is no doubt that the way the Denmark-Sweden game developed shows that the two teams were aiming for a draw. Of course, proof of that is hard to find.

Franco Carraro

He's like, 'Oh, you play for Real?' ... That's what happens when you live in Sweden for a year.

Brian Dunseth

When we thought about playing for the gold medal, in our heads our vision was always playing against the Americans. It was definitely a surprise. They've been a great team. But it's also an exciting game for Sweden.

Jayna Hefford

The plan was to leave them, let them develop further. They're doing an awful good job in Sweden and Finland training these players. We don't want to rush them.

Pat Quinn

I think it is very problematic and unfortunate that people who have been in Sweden for so long make proposals such as this that are so opposed to our intentions, when we are fighting for women's rights and the right to divorce.

Jens Orback

Countries like Sweden and Italy have been having this huge debate for many years over population decline. A lot of the debate is about immigration: People have been telling them they need to increase immigration in order to keep the economy going.

Shripad Tuljapurkar

It will be my final Olympics and I am looking forward to it. We have a tough start with the Czech Republic and Canada, but anything is possible. You saw what Belarus did in 2002 (when it beat Sweden). Maybe we can do the same thing.

Olaf Kolzig

Sweden has equality between men and women. To introduce exceptions for Muslims so that women can be oppressed with the support of the law is completely unacceptable to me.

Lars Leijonborg

They turned a coal mine into a gold mine. People come from all over the world to see this mine — from Sweden and England and all kinds of places.

George Archibald

[Also included is a faux Hives documentary narrated by Little Steven Van Zandt .] Apparently Bruce Springsteen saw us on TV and kind of introduced Steven to us, which is weird enough as it is, ... When they got to Sweden on an E Street Band tour, they looked us up and had us come down to the show. We've been friends since.

Pelle Almqvist

We tried to leave the guards out there, but unfortunately, Sweden didn't make an error in the last end.

Rhona Martin

It's not that our teens are having sex any more than those in Sweden or Norway or any other country. It's just that we're not educating. We don't want to deal with ways to prevent pregnancy other than abstinence.

Karrie Galloway

I played five times, got one cap. In fact we never really got anything from the SFA over in Sweden. The Swedes gave us a piece of glass, a vase, and we had flannels and a blazer with the SFA badge on it, but that was it - nothing really to indicate that we'd ever been in Sweden.

Jimmy Murray

We are aware of Anze's desire to play at least one more year in Europe this coming season, ... He has a very good development situation in Sodertalje and it is quite probable he will be assigned back to Sweden.

Dave Taylor

There is a distinct feel and look to something designed in Sweden.

Ed Welburn